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The movie "Avatar"
« on: January 03, 2010, 12:01:24 AM »
Just want to say that I went to the movies today in a very long time and I wasn't disappointed.

Avatar was by all means a movie that delivered just about everything, including very ultra believable futuristic military technology, ships and weaponry. I will not spoil it for those that didn't see it and are going to. Just go see it for yourselves, even if it's not the 3D screening it is still amazing. Seeing is believing  :wink:.
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2010, 10:07:34 AM »
I am likley getting old, but I found the story very unoriginal.  The effects were great, I just felt the story has already been told in a Disney movie.
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2010, 12:35:03 PM »
I have no urge to see it. Either at home, nor in the theatre.

I'm growing tired of movies that depend 100% on it's CGI.

Strange.

I'm sure one day I will see it, but it's not on my immediate plans to do so. Superman 3 is on my immediate plans.... which is sad in itself.
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2010, 01:30:05 PM »
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I have no urge to see it. Either at home, nor in the theatre.

I'm growing tired of movies that depend 100% on it's CGI.

Strange.

I'm sure one day I will see it, but it's not on my immediate plans to do so. Superman 3 is on my immediate plans.... which is sad in itself.

Maybe that's because a lot of the movies out there are cheaply done to rip us off with overdone and surrealistic special effects that contribute very little to the story or the action.

I felt that the special effects were a necessity to enjoy this movie.

The space ships sets however were not even CGI, and I thought that they made ALIEN, ALIENS or STARSHIP TROOPERS look like things of yesterday's.

When you do end up seeing it one day, I'd want to know what you thought of it....even if it means reopening this tread after a few months or years... :lol:

By the way I'm a fan of the four Superman movies ( I'm not counting Superman returns here ). The movie is obviously slapstick by several moments, compliments of Richard Pryor who's actually quite amuzing to see in this one. And The make up special effects are actually quite impressive for the time.
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2010, 04:41:46 PM »
Mike - I'm feeling the way it sounds like you do.  Nothing really hits me anymore.

I know now why my Dad knew that Luke was Darth's son after Star Wars.  To take a quote from Larry Hama's FB profile:
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."
Voltaire

But the CGI was great indeed.
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2010, 05:18:31 PM »
You've GOT to see it in 3-D.
Haven't seen a movie that impressed me that much in a while.
Didn't care for the story, but the visual imagery was a spectacle.
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2010, 07:23:09 PM »
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Mike - I'm feeling the way it sounds like you do.  Nothing really hits me anymore.

I know now why my Dad knew that Luke was Darth's son after Star Wars.  To take a quote from Larry Hama's FB profile:
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."
Voltaire

But the CGI was great indeed.



WHOA! Wait a minute! Darth Vader is Luke's father!! well thanks mr. movie wrecker. please use spoiler alerts.....  :shifty:
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2010, 09:15:29 PM »
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Mike - I'm feeling the way it sounds like you do.  Nothing really hits me anymore.

I know now why my Dad knew that Luke was Darth's son after Star Wars.  To take a quote from Larry Hama's FB profile:
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."
Voltaire

But the CGI was great indeed.



WHOA! Wait a minute! Darth Vader is Luke's father!! well thanks mr. movie wrecker. please use spoiler alerts.....  :shifty:. There's no mystery anymore since Lucas released the 3 prequels that reveal all on who is really who  :lol:
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2010, 04:44:20 AM »
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Mike - I'm feeling the way it sounds like you do.  Nothing really hits me anymore.

I know now why my Dad knew that Luke was Darth's son after Star Wars.  To take a quote from Larry Hama's FB profile:
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation."
Voltaire

But the CGI was great indeed.


Gakk!  Sorry.  I guess I shouldn't mention that the midichlorians are Anakin's father............from a certain point of view.


WHOA! Wait a minute! Darth Vader is Luke's father!! well thanks mr. movie wrecker. please use spoiler alerts.....  :shifty:

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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2010, 08:09:00 AM »
Saw it over the weekend. I agree it's not overly original, but visually, it's quite stunning, the CG is much better than anything that Lucas put out in the 'new' trilogy, and actually, dare I say it, the story while again not overly original, is more interesting than the 'new' trilogy. It was a good movie, worth my 13 bucks.
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2010, 09:13:21 PM »
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Gakk!  Sorry.  I guess I shouldn't mention that the midichlorians are Anakin's father............from a certain point of view.

SPOILER ALERT! This also means of course that the Midichlorians are Luke's Grandfather...from another point of view  :).
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Re: The movie "Avatar"
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2010, 06:20:16 AM »
I see its passed $1 billion world-wide. Is that because of the ticket prices or is everyone seeing it. I'll be honest I shocked that it surpassed the Dark Knight. Must be more popular then I thought but I never heard of it before.
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